Good quality birding

The day started with a good sunrise.

 Heading out on our dog walk the koala was in exactly the same place as yesterday.  We noted that there was no sight nor sound of the fruit bats today.  Obviously their food supply has dried up.  On the road past their camp we saw a Brush Bronzewing - possibly the first I have seen in this area - they were the common pigeon on Eyre Peninsula.  Seeing a Common Bronzewing a little further down the road made it a 4 pigeon day, following White-headed and Wonga at the house.

I remembered to take a photo of this rather large fungus.  It has not however helped me identify it!
There was little of interest on the walk, other than the many notices forbidding various things in the amenities block at the caravan park.  This all seemed a bit over the top for the 30 or so caravans currently in situ.  Then I thought about the 700+ that get there in Summer (a higher population than many towns in South Australia) and if 10% of them had drones or tried charging a car battery in the amenity block it would be chaos.

Getting back to Karbeethong and the fat boy had vanished.  We couldn't spot him elsewhere in the same tree but he could have been hidden in foliage.

The mid-morning walk was the Heathland Track to Betka Beach.  The most surprising aspect of this was the number of people around.  Usually we'd meet one other couple at most.  Today my estimate would be about 7 groups.  There were still few flowers around: the Acacia in the heath is well into flower (but my photo was too blurry) and a few specimens of Epacris impressa were evident.
 As we climberd uo from the Betka River Frances spotted one of my target birds - a Bassian Thrush.
Later in the day we saw one at Mortimers Paddock )which possibly made it a Bastion {Point} Thrush) and a third beside Lakeside Drive.

The other birding highlight was about 60 Australian Gannets sitting on the water at Bastion  Point, with a few small seabirds flying by.  I was ver frustrated to have left my field guide behind as I couldn't ID them.

Weather was excellent, with little wind and no cloud until late in the afternoon.

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